1,099 Quotes by Hermann Hesse

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

. Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound had not been given to him in order to turn the knife in it, that it had to become a blossom and had to shine. , the wound was not blossoming yet, his heart was still fighting his fate, cheerfulness and victory were not yet shining from his suffering. Nevertheless, he felt hope

A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new